drive wheel

[justafamilyman]

Hi To All,
The story follows:
Before last winter (03-04) I stored my Vette outside. I had it covered, got the oil changes, had the Vette washed and polished. Spring 04 comes around. I tried to drive my Vette off the ground and back on to the drive way. Unfortunately, I got my Vette stuck in mud and had to have it pulled out. The left rear wheel appeard to be deeper in the mud than the right rear. So I am guessing the left ear wheel is the drive whee.l
The point is if I knew which was he drive wheel, I would have left that wheel on the driveway and prevented getting stuck in mud. As to the winter. I am the one blowing (no....no...no...don't you think that) the snow off the driveway so I can miss my Vette.
Thanks for any help.
BTW Rob, close this after 2-3 weeks, I should have a answer by then.
Blue Borg Brian 1 of 58

 

[rsimoes]

A couple things:

1) All cars are two wheel drive. (unless 4wd or awd) Some have a limited slip differential, which does not allow one wheel to spin on it's own. More accurately, tries to not allow one wheel to spin on it's own via clutches inside the differential. (that's what your Vette has) (some have a mechanical lock, but it's not too common anymore) if you don't have a limited slip (traction-lok, posi, whatever you want to call it) differential, whichever wheel has less traction will spin. Most of the time, the rear right wheel spins because of the way the engine turns the driveshaft and the driveshaft tries to rotate the rear axle housing, thereby taking a slight amount of "weight" off rear right wheel, as it attemps to put it off the ground, so you see that one wheel spin. In reverse, it will be the other wheel. In theory putting one wheel (either one) on the driveway should help, but it won't help much, unless you had a mechanical locking rear, which you don't.

2) I would rather see you drive the Vette in the winter rather than have it sit on dirt, because the humidity will rise into the underbody, etc, making it "rot" rust, corrode, etc.

Hope that helps.
Rob